Dear Juno, Recalling upon your decision and the outcome, that is giving birth instead of aborting your child I must agree with your decision, upon the circumstances produced. That being, there was a couple who were going to adopt your child. Though the husband left, I still think the wife will manage as a mother. Considering the fact that through this ordeal you learned that having a child is a big responsibility and that you probably won’t have another child for a long time. In total if there was no family who would adopt your child and your parents refused to possibly raise the child as if it were their own, then, maybe as a last resort, abortion could have been an option. My personal opinion on Roe vs. Wade is rather mixed. Personally I would keep the status-quo on the law, that is to make the practice legal in all 50 states, but to tip it a little in favor of pro-life by restricting the abortion period to only the first trimester nationally, this in turn will lessen abortions and only perform it while the fetus is a glob of cells. Considering both sides of the argument, this would be a mediator between the two and where the scientific part of myself can agree with the pious part of myself. On the one hand I see abortion as one of the grimmest institutions in today’s society, nowhere else can you terminate a human or rather a possible human being so simply. To me aborting a fetus in the second or third trimester is simply horrifying due to how developed they are by that time, especially in third trimester abortions where the doctor must snip the spinal cord of the fetus while in the womb essentially killing it. Which is why I believe if you have to do it, do it early while in the first trimester while it is still a mess of cells. On the other hand, even though I don’t completely agree with their practices abortion clinics do in fact offer a legal safe place to perform abortions, giving mothers the ability to undergo the operation without the possibility of injury or death unlike the pre-1973 “back-alley” abortions which were completely and utterly unsafe. Thus we should limit this sort of behavior by federally enforcing the continuation of these clinics in all 50 states to prevent these unsafe conditions in more conservative states. Though it irks me to endorse this sort of activity, I am subdued by a statement once made by the French philosopher, Rene Descartes; “I think therefore I am” because a human at the developmental stage of a fetus cannot think for itself, then I suppose, it wouldn’t have really known that it had existed in the first place.
Recalling upon your decision and the outcome, that is giving birth instead of aborting your child I must agree with your decision, upon the circumstances produced. That being, there was a couple who were going to adopt your child. Though the husband left, I still think the wife will manage as a mother. Considering the fact that through this ordeal you learned that having a child is a big responsibility and that you probably won’t have another child for a long time. In total if there was no family who would adopt your child and your parents refused to possibly raise the child as if it were their own, then, maybe as a last resort, abortion could have been an option.
My personal opinion on Roe vs. Wade is rather mixed. Personally I would keep the status-quo on the law, that is to make the practice legal in all 50 states, but to tip it a little in favor of pro-life by restricting the abortion period to only the first trimester nationally, this in turn will lessen abortions and only perform it while the fetus is a glob of cells. Considering both sides of the argument, this would be a mediator between the two and where the scientific part of myself can agree with the pious part of myself.
On the one hand I see abortion as one of the grimmest institutions in today’s society, nowhere else can you terminate a human or rather a possible human being so simply. To me aborting a fetus in the second or third trimester is simply horrifying due to how developed they are by that time, especially in third trimester abortions where the doctor must snip the spinal cord of the fetus while in the womb essentially killing it. Which is why I believe if you have to do it, do it early while in the first trimester while it is still a mess of cells. On the other hand, even though I don’t completely agree with their practices abortion clinics do in fact offer a legal safe place to perform abortions, giving mothers the ability to undergo the operation without the possibility of injury or death unlike the pre-1973 “back-alley” abortions which were completely and utterly unsafe. Thus we should limit this sort of behavior by federally enforcing the continuation of these clinics in all 50 states to prevent these unsafe conditions in more conservative states.
Though it irks me to endorse this sort of activity, I am subdued by a statement once made by the French philosopher, Rene Descartes; “I think therefore I am” because a human at the developmental stage of a fetus cannot think for itself, then I suppose, it wouldn’t have really known that it had existed in the first place.